"You never see a girl smile in a fashion show, unless you're here," makeup guru Dick Page tells me amidst the sh*t show backstage at Victoria's Secret. "So they're mobile, they're active, they're smiling, they blow kisses and all that stuff, so we want the faces to be mobile and active and healthy. Dewy skin, little flash of highlight under the eye, little trace of black cream liner rubbed in and smudged down. Nothing sharp. No strong edges." Who else is mobile, active, and healthy? Duh, you. Here, 7 beauty rules we learned backstage at Victoria's Secret for the real world.

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Use Blush Not Bronzer

Page blended red Kryolan Color Supra Grease Paint into the cheeks and along the bridge of the nose. "Just a dot on the nose, without telling people you'll barely even know it's there. It's just something that makes the girls look very lively."

Boost Eyes With Highlighter

Forget strobing, Page limits highlighter to the inner corners of the eyes. "It reads for distance and looks good close up as well."

Keep it Real

"We are giving some girls false lashes, just a little accent. Some girls arrived with extensions, which are not my dream look. You can see it from outer space! It just doesn't
read. But it's out of my hands we can always fix a false eyelash, but we can't do much about an extension apart from yanking them out," Page says. Instead of faking it, he gave the girls a few coats of black mascara.

Skip Statement Brows

"We're fixing them after they've been bleached or something bad like that. Mostly we're just going and filling them in a little bit. Nothing blocked. Sometimes girls get carried away and they get a bit of a heavy brow. We're trying to keep them as light as possible. Everything transparent, everything light, everything very fresh."

Blow Past the First Day Waves

"The look this year is lived in, day two beach waves, so we actually don't really need too much," hair pro Sarah Potempa explains. "We want a wave that kind of opens up right at the cheekbone because when they get to the end of the runway there's a wind machine. The way that we got the look, we started with the mousse, we blow it up...[then, using the Victoria's Secret Beach Waver tool] you're going to take the hair and we just clamp it on the bottom and you just press it, and it curls for you."

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Don't Overextend Yourself

"None of the girls are adding any length to their hair, but
some of them might add a little volume just for the runway. If you wanted to recreate it at home, you can always do clip-ins the night of. But it's really one of those looks that we just want to take what they have and enhance it and give it a natural wave. That's it! "

Mix to Match

"Take your regular or your summertime foundation and mix it with a little bit of moisturizer," says Dani Fonseca, who's in charge of making sure the Angels' bods glow. "Go ahead and rub it all over your legs. We're in that in-between time where we don't really have to wear stockings yet, but if you're going to go out with bare legs or even bare arms just do that, rub it up and down, and then pop it with some highlighter."